Finnish tennis player (born 1990)
Henri Kontinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhenri ˈkontinen] ; born 19 June 1990) is a Finnish former professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
After being forced to end his singles career at a young age due to injuries, having reached a career-high ranking of No. 220, Kontinen became a successful doubles player. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2017 Australian Open with John Peers in men's doubles, and the 2016 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles alongside Heather Watson . Kontinen and Peers also won the 2016 and 2017 ATP Finals, and reached the final at the 2019 Australian Open .
He has won 21 doubles titles on the ATP Tour , and became world No. 1 for the first time on 3 April 2017, spending 26 weeks at the top of the rankings. Kontinen and Peers have also won three titles at Masters 1000 level. He has represented Finland in the Davis Cup since 2008, often alongside his younger brother, Micke , who is himself a former tennis player.
Kontinen won the 2008 French Open boys' doubles title with Christopher Rungkat .[2] He reached the final of the 2008 Wimbledon boys' singles which he lost to Grigor Dimitrov having beaten Bernard Tomic in the semifinal. He also reached the final of the 2008 US Open boys' doubles with Rungkat. Subsequently, Kontinen's singles development was hampered by knee injuries, and in 2013 he decided to concentrate on doubles.
In 2014 Kontinen won his first ATP title at the Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel with Jarkko Nieminen , he also played two more finals partnering Marin Draganja .
2015 was a breakthrough year for him as he won five titles[3] [4] including title at the Barcelona Open BancSabadell , his first ATP World Tour 500 series title. Together with Zheng Jie he reached semifinals of mixed doubles at the 2015 French Open .
His good results continued in 2016 as he won the title at the Brisbane International in January with John Peers .[5] On April–May they won the BMW Open together.[6] At the 2016 Wimbledon Championships he reached quarterfinals of the men's doubles tournament together with Peers and the final of the mixed doubles with Heather Watson , which they won in straight sets.[7] On July Kontinen and Peers won the German Open Tennis Championships .[8] On August Kontinen won the Winstom-Salem Open playing with Guillermo García-López . It was Kontinen's 10th doubles title in his career.[9] He took the victory of St. Petersburg Open with Dominic Inglot .[10] Kontinen and Peers had a successful end for the year as they won their first Masters title at Paris Masters [11] and the season ending ATP World Tour Finals title.[12] Kontinen reached the top 10 in rankings as the first Finnish tennis player ever to do so.[13]
Kontinen and Peers won the 2017 Australian Open doubles championship in January 2017, and on 3 April 2017 Kontinen became world No. 1 doubles player—the first Finnish player, male or female, to do so. At Wimbledon in 2017 , Kontinen and Peers lost in the semifinal to Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo , the eventual champions; Kontinen also lost his No. 1 ranking to Melo.[14] In the mixed doubles , Kontinen and Watson reached the final for the second successive year, but lost to Jamie Murray and Martina Hingis .
Grand Slam tournaments [ edit ] Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)[ edit ] Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)[ edit ] Year-end championships [ edit ] Doubles: 2 (2 titles)[ edit ] Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)[ edit ] Doubles: 30 (24 titles, 6 runner-ups)[ edit ] Legend Grand Slam tournaments (1–1) ATP World Tour Finals (2–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (3–1) ATP World Tour 500 Series (6–2) ATP World Tour 250 Series (12–2)
Finals by surface Hard (19–5) Clay (4–1) Grass (1–0) Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting Outdoor (13–3) Indoor (11–3)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score Win 1–0 Aug 2014 Austrian Open Kitzbühel , Austria 250 Series Clay Jarkko Nieminen Daniele Bracciali Andrey Golubev 6–1, 6–4 Loss 1–1 Sep 2014 Moselle Open , France 250 Series Hard (i) Marin Draganja Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski 7–6(7–3) , 3–6, [8–10] Loss 1–2 Nov 2014 Swiss Indoors , Switzerland 500 Series Hard (i) Marin Draganja Vasek Pospisil Nenad Zimonjić 6–7(13–15) , 6–1, [5–10] Win 2–2 Feb 2015 Zagreb Indoors , Croatia 250 Series Hard (i) Marin Draganja Fabrice Martin Purav Raja 6–4, 6–4 Win 3–2 Feb 2015 Open 13 , France 250 Series Hard (i) Marin Draganja Colin Fleming Jonathan Marray 6–4, 3–6, [10–8] Win 4–2 Apr 2015 Barcelona Open , Spain 500 Series Clay Marin Draganja Jamie Murray John Peers 6–3, 6–7(6–8) , [11–9] Loss 4–3 Aug 2015 Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Austria 250 Series Clay Robin Haase Nicolás Almagro Carlos Berlocq 7–5, 3–6, [9–11] Win 5–3 Sep 2015 St. Petersburg Open , Russia 250 Series Hard (i) Treat Huey Julian Knowle Alexander Peya 7–5, 6–3 Win 6–3 Oct 2015 Malaysia Open , Malaysia 250 Series Hard (i) Treat Huey Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram 7–6(7–4) , 6–2 Win 7–3 Jan 2016 Brisbane International , Australia 250 Series Hard John Peers James Duckworth Chris Guccione 7–6(7–4) , 6–1 Win 8–3 May 2016 Bavarian International , Germany 250 Series Clay John Peers Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah 6–3, 3–6, [10–7] Win 9–3 Jul 2016 German Open , Germany 500 Series Clay John Peers Daniel Nestor Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 7–5, 6–3 Win 10–3 Aug 2016 Winston-Salem Open , United States 250 Series Hard Guillermo García López Andre Begemann Leander Paes 4–6, 7–6(8–6) , [10–8] Win 11–3 Sep 2016 St. Petersburg Open, Russia (2) 250 Series Hard (i) Dominic Inglot Andre Begemann Leander Paes 4–6, 6–3, [12–10] Loss 11–4 Oct 2016 Shanghai Masters , China Masters 1000 Hard John Peers Jack Sock John Isner 4–6, 4–6 Win 12–4 Nov 2016 Paris Masters , France Masters 1000 Hard (i) John Peers Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut 6–4, 3–6, [10–6] Win 13–4 Nov 2016 ATP Finals , United Kingdom Tour Finals Hard (i) John Peers Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram 2–6, 6–1, [10–8] Win 14–4 Jan 2017 Australian Open , Australia Grand Slam Hard John Peers Bob Bryan Mike Bryan 7–5, 7–5 Win 15–4 Aug 2017 Washington Open , United States 500 Series Hard John Peers Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo 7–6(7–5) , 6–4 Win 16–4 Oct 2017 China Open , China 500 Series Hard John Peers John Isner Jack Sock 6–3, 3–6, [10–7] Win 17–4 Oct 2017 Shanghai Masters, China Masters 1000 Hard John Peers Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo 6–4, 6–2 Win 18–4 Nov 2017 ATP Finals, United Kingdom (2) Tour Finals Hard (i) John Peers Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo 6–4, 6–2 Win 19–4 Jan 2018 Brisbane International, Australia (2) 250 Series Hard John Peers Leonardo Mayer Horacio Zeballos 3–6, 6–3, [10–2] Win 20–4 Jun 2018 Queen's Club Championships , United Kingdom 500 Series Grass John Peers Jamie Murray Bruno Soares 6–4, 6–3 Win 21–4 Aug 2018 Canadian Open , Canada Masters 1000 Hard John Peers Raven Klaasen Michael Venus 6–2, 6–7(7–9) , [10–6] Loss 21–5 Jan 2019 Australian Open, Australia Grand Slam Hard John Peers Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut 4–6, 6–7(1–7) Win 22–5 Feb 2019 Rotterdam Open , Netherlands 500 Series Hard (i) Jérémy Chardy Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău 7–6(7–5) , 7–6(7–4) Win 23–5 Oct 2019 Stockholm Open , Sweden 250 Series Hard (i) Édouard Roger-Vasselin Mate Pavić Bruno Soares 6–4, 6–2 Loss 23–6 Feb 2020 Rotterdam Open, Netherlands 500 Series Hard (i) Jan-Lennard Struff Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut 6–7(5–7) , 6–4, [7–10] Win 24–6 Feb 2021 Open Sud de France , France 250 Series Hard (i) Édouard Roger-Vasselin Jonathan Erlich Andrei Vasilevski 6–2, 7–5
Challengers and Futures finals [ edit ] Singles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up)[ edit ] Legend Challengers Futures (5–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score Win 1–0 Aug 2009 Lithuania F1, Vilnius Futures Clay Timo Nieminen 6–1, 6–3 Loss 1–1 Oct 2009 Germany F19, Leimen Futures Hard (i) Michał Przysiężny 6–3, 2–6, 5–7 Win 2–1 Oct 2009 Great Britain F16, Cardiff Futures Hard (i) Yannick Mertens 7–6(7–4) , 7–5 Win 3–1 Feb 2010 Bosnia & Herzegovina F2, Sarajevo Futures Carpet (i) Alexander Peya 6–3, 7–6(7–4) Win 4–1 Sep 2010 Sweden F1, Danderyd Futures Hard (i) Timo Nieminen 6–3, 6–4 Win 5–1 Sep 2010 Sweden F2, Falun Futures Hard (i) Timo Nieminen 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–5)
Doubles: 28 (18 titles, 10 runner-ups)[ edit ] Legend (doubles) Challengers (8–8) Futures (10–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score Loss 0–1 Nov 2007 Helsinki , Finland Challenger Hard (i) Harri Heliövaara Mikhail Elgin Alexander Kudryavtsev 6–4, 5–7, [11–13] Win 1–1 Apr 2008 Great Britain F6, Exmouth Futures Carpet (i) Harri Heliövaara Ralph Grambow Ken Skupski 6–2, 6–2 Loss 1–2 Aug 2008 Tampere , Finland Challenger Clay Harri Heliövaara Ervin Eleskovic Michael Ryderstedt 3–6, 4–6 Win 2–2 Sep 2008 Sweden F2, Falun Futures Hard (i) Timo Nieminen Carl Bergman Tim Göransson 6–4, 6–2 Win 3–2 Mar 2009 Great Britain F3, Tipton Futures Hard (i) Dan Evans Scott Oudsema Phillip Simmonds 6–7(5–7) , 7–6(7–4) , [10–4] Win 4–2 May 2009 Kuwait F1, Mishref Futures Hard Sebastian Rieschick Vivek Shokeen Navdeep Singh 6–4, 6–2 Win 5–2 May 2009 Kuwait F2, Mishref Futures Hard Sebastian Rieschick Jiří Krkoška Pierrick Ysern 6–4, 6–4 Win 6–2 Jun 2009 Norway F1, Svingvoll Futures Hard Timo Nieminen Fabrice Martin Michael McClune 6–3, 6–3 Win 7–2 Jul 2009 Estonia F2, Kuressaare Futures Clay (i) Harri Heliövaara Mait Künnap Juho Paukku 6–3, 6–3 Loss 7–3 Nov 2009 Jersey , Channel Islands Challenger Hard (i) Jarkko Nieminen Frederik Nielsen Joseph Sirianni 5–7, 6–3, [2–10] Loss 7–4 Nov 2009 Helsinki, Finland Challenger Hard (i) Jarkko Nieminen Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 2–6, 6–7(7–9) Loss 7–5 Oct 2010 Great Britain F17, Cardiff Futures Hard (i) Timo Nieminen Josh Goodall Dominic Inglot 1–6, 2–6 Win 8–5 Nov 2010 Loughborough , United Kingdom Challenger Hard (i) Frederik Nielsen Jordan Kerr Ken Skupski 6–2, 6–4 Loss 8–6 Nov 2010 Helsinki, Finland Challenger Hard (i) Jarkko Nieminen Dustin Brown Martin Emmrich 6–7(17–19) , 6–0, [7–10] Win 9–6 Jun 2013 Netherlands F1, Amstelveen Futures Clay Christopher Rungkat Niels Lootsma Jelle Sels 6–1, 7–5 Win 10–6 Jun 2013 Netherlands F2, Alkmaar Futures Clay Christopher Rungkat David Škoch Jan Zednik 7–5, 7–6(9–7) Win 11–6 Jun 2013 Netherlands F3, Breda Futures Clay Christopher Rungkat Bjorn Fratangelo Mitchell Krueger 6–4, 7–5 Loss 11–7 Jul 2013 Poznań , Poland Challenger Clay Mateusz Kowalczyk Gero Kretschmer Alexander Satschko 3–6, 3–6 Win 12–7 Jul 2013 Tampere, Finland Challenger Clay Goran Tošić Ruben Gonzales Chris Letcher 6–4, 6–4 Loss 12–8 Sep 2013 Sweden F6, Falun Futures Hard (i) Jesper Brunström Milos Sekulic Fred Simonsson 6–3, 3–6, [5–10] Loss 12–9 Oct 2013 Mouilleron-le-Captif , France Challenger Hard (i) Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras Fabrice Martin Hugo Nys 6–3, 3–6, [8–10] Win 13–9 Nov 2013 Bratislava , Slovakia Challenger Hard (i) Andreas Siljeström Gero Kretschmer Jan-Lennard Struff 7–6(8–6) , 6–2 Win 14–9 Nov 2013 Helsinki, Finland Challenger Hard (i) Jarkko Nieminen Dustin Brown Philipp Marx 7–5, 5–7, [10–5] Win 15–9 Jan 2014 Talheim , Germany Challenger Hard (i) Tomasz Bednarek Ken Skupski Neal Skupski 3–6, 7–6 (7–3) , [12–10] Win 16–9 Mar 2014 Cherbourg , France Challenger Hard (i) Konstantin Kravchuk Pierre-Hugues Herbert Albano Olivetti 6–4, 6–7 (3–7) , [10–7] Win 17–9 Apr 2014 Sarasota , United States Challenger Clay Marin Draganja Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Franko Škugor 7–5, 5–7, [10–6] Loss 17–10 Jul 2014 Poznań, Poland Challenger Clay Tomasz Bednarek Radu Albot Adam Pavlásek 7–5, 2–6, [10–8] Win 18–10 Nov 2014 Helsinki, Finland (2) Challenger Hard (i) Jarkko Nieminen Jonathan Marray Philipp Petzschner 7–6(7–2) , 6–4
Junior Grand Slam finals [ edit ] Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)[ edit ] Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)[ edit ] Key W F SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Current after the 2021 Sofia Open .
Current through the 2021 Australian Open .
Current ATP world No. 1 in bold, as of week of 15 July 2024[update] ATP rankings was introduced on 1 March 1976 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40 41–45 46–50 51–55 56–60 61–65 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) weeks record underlined.